On Tuesday morning, the sun enters the caring, endoscopic Cancer. Over the next month, your attention may shift from the world around you to the world within you. If you have neglected your inner life, ignoring your need for security or companionship or healing to support ongoing socialization, this is the time to fix things. If you’ve felt away from your loved ones, the Cancer era offers an opportunity to find your way back to each other. Then, on Wednesday afternoon, the erotic planet Venus enters the light Gemini, preventing things from becoming very emotional and encouraging you to see the beauty even in relationships and experiences that are not necessarily deep. You will not take yourself so seriously that you forget how to laugh, how to flirt, how to simply enjoy the company of the people around you. While caring for other people makes your life richer, it can also be stressful. The more you invest, the more vulnerable you are to getting hurt. The more you love and value a relationship, the more you have to lose. When you feel particularly pessimistic, you worry that love is not worth the risk, that it can reach a painful end. This week, your job is to be brave enough to continue caring for others anyway. Because right now, love will not make you weak or exhausted, but the opposite: strong and fearless and ready to fight, because you know what you are fighting for. Sometimes it surprises you (even though you know it shouldn’t) when others are as firm in their beliefs as you are in yours, when they prove to be equal to your determination. Your first instinct in these situations may be to prepare for conflict. What other effect can there be when two stubborn people get pissed? But especially this week, competition is not your only choice. If you are open to it, you may find something better instead: a friend willing and able to stand by your side, to fight as hard for you as you do for yourself. No matter how charming or fun or likeable you are (as a Gemini, it is probably a lot), there are still times when you feel invisible. You know that people enjoy your company and even admire you, but you’re afraid they just do not pay enough attention to see you. It would be easy, this week, to respond by becoming louder, impossible to ignore. But see what happens if you give others the benefit of the doubt. You may be surprised at how insightful they really are and how much they appreciate you – not just the mask you wear in public, but your real one – after all. Lately you know very well how much in this life is completely out of your control. You can not force those in power to develop a conscience that they do not have. You can not even convince some people around you to act the way you would like them to do. The sun rises and sets, and the seasons change, and people act according to their own chaotic, individual impulses: you can control none of them. Even so: You are not helpless at all. Every day, there are situations — however small — where your care and attention make a difference, and this week, it’s your job to find them. It is difficult to live in a ruthless society and not be responded to harshly, to face greedy, indifferent people without changing you for the worse. Violence creates more violence. People who benefit from this truth rely on everyone else, including you, to forget that there are other ways to be. So this week, it’s up to you to remember. People seem to change for the worse every day, but that does not mean you have to do it. Protect what is kind, brave and good inside you, and you will be rewarded for it. When you ask too much of others – for care or effort or attention they are unwilling to give – you inevitably end up disappointed. And after so many experiences like this, you may start to think that you will never be satisfied, that there is no one out there who will really show up for you or that you are uniquely cursed in love. But this is far from the truth. In addition, it prevents you from appreciating the sweet but imperfect ways in which people in your life show that they care. This week, try to accept the gifts they offer you. You may find that all of these different forms of affection are ultimately what you needed. These days, you were wondering how if our reality were a little different – sweeter, fairer, less precarious – you could live another, fuller life. You dream of the most satisfying ways in which you could use your creative talents if you did not have to work so hard just to pay the bills. can you imagine how much more energy you would have to take care of your community if you were not so exhausted at the end of each day. But this week, do not imagine for a moment that your potential will be lost. You are already doing so much in this imperfect world. Sometimes it seems that the people in your life, even those who love you the most, can not manage your whole, complex self. They are constantly trying to dodge you, to label you, to occupy you once and for all, and they are disappointed, even upset, when they find that they can not. You wonder if it would be easier to be the person others have decided you are, to stop changing so much, to let go of the messy, tighter sides of yourself. But it is not your job to make yourself small for the comfort of others. It is only your job to live fully. It’s upsetting to have a suspicion that others are underestimating you, knowing that you are capable of bigger, more wonderful things than anyone else thinks. You wonder what your life would be like if the people around you had more faith in you, what would have been different if you had received the support you need. No matter how confident you are, feeling invisible and unappreciated has its toll. This week, you have the opportunity to start rebuilding yourself. Do not wait for someone else’s approval. You are capable of more than you can imagine. It is tempting for you to wait for the ideal conditions before taking action or for a sense of certainty that a relationship is worth it before you dive. In a way, it makes sense. Why accept something less than what you deserve? But the truth is that change rarely comes at the “right time” and there are no perfect people. Consider this knowledge a gift, not a disappointment. You do not have to keep waiting for an optimal moment that may never come. You can act right now. You can create the world, the relationships, the conditions you need at any time. When you are faced with a confusing relationship or a difficult decision, your tendency lately is to think too much about it. This can be strangely enjoyable. It gives your brain something to do and all the mental effort confirms that you are making good progress. This week, however, do your best to resist the urge to turn the same dilemma over and over in your mind, to be obsessed and to theorize without rest. Right now, the answers you are looking for are more likely to come when you loosen your grip and stop trying so hard. Give yourself a moment to be. Have you ever wondered if you are really strong enough to do it in the next few days? It is not that you are particularly weak or that you lack in some other way. The future is just so terribly uncertain and you are afraid that you will not be ready for any change on the horizon. You worry that you will not have time to develop the inner strength you need to overcome it. But power is not something you have to create from the air: you have had it all along. what you need to do is remember how brave you can be. You have proven it to yourself in the past and you will prove it again. Psst! 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